Avoid reviews and spoilers and go see it NOW! RUN!

Rating: 8/10 (9 November 2002)

If you like feeling your heart pound and having a visceral knot in the pit of your belly, then go see this film.
Avoid reviews and spoilers and go see it NOW! RUN!
If you want to stick around, then this does contain spoilers...
The film starts in an animal research lab. Animal Rights activists accidentally liberate "Rage", a beefed-up version or rabies.
28 days later...
Jim, a bike courier, wakes up in a deserted hospital bed (sporting a nice craniotomy scar), having been comatose for some time following an RTA. He walks through an eerily silent London (reminded me of walking home at 6am after a hard night clubbing).
These scenes are quite breathtaking, especially the iconic fallen bus, and the "wall of notes" around Eros. I did find it slightly difficult to suspend my belief that NO corpses were around at this point...
So our hero meets a surviving couple, Selena and Mark. This interlude serves to bring Jim up to speed with the story. Selena then dumps her boyfriend, and teams up with Jim.
They happen upon Frank, an indominatble London cabbie, and his daughter Hannah. I liked the initial tension between these two pairs of characters when they first met. I thought that Frank seemed SO nice to these strangers that he HAD to be hiding some sinister dark secret, but I'm glad that he turned out to be genuine enough.
The Quartet go in search of salvation, following a broadcast from a military outpost near Manchester. Tragically Frank becomes 'Rage' fodder moments before making contact with the soldiers.
Unfortunately the soldiers there turn out to be almost as dangerous as the 'zombies' they left behind - and the real reason for the broadcast was a trap to lure unsuspecting totty to apease the uncontrollable squaddies.
In the end Jim has to kill all the squaddies to rescue two remaining girls, and they all flee to Cumbria and presumably live happily ever after.
If one were to be incredibly picky, then there are some massive technical plot holes. The nature of 'Rage' being a case in point... if all the 'zombies' really vomited that much blood all the time, they would all be incapacitated by shock and the film would be called '28 hours'... also the Rhabdovirus (which causes rabies) takes about 6 weeks to grow from a bite along your neurons into your brain and start causing an encephalitis - took about 10 seconds with 'Rage'.
I loved this film. On the up side it has atmosphere, spectacular visuals and runs at a tremendous pace. More to the point - it is terrifyingly scary. Actually makes my stomach turn thinking about some of it - and I have seen a lot of this type of thing "IRL".